Drew Barrymore Admits Her "Odd Childhood" Is What Makes Her A Better Mom

While everyone's been freaking out about Drew Barrymore's post-baby body and wondering if she and hubby Will Kopelman are the next couple headed to Splitsville (we're calling bullsh*t on that right now), Drew's over here releasing her autobiography, Wildflower, and being awesome at life. But that doesn't mean life's always come easy to the celeb, as she's now admitting that her career—which started at seven with her role as Gertie in E.T.—gave her an "odd childhood" and tumultuous relationship with her mother, Jaid.

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Drew was emancipated from her mother at the young age of 14, after what she says was a relationship of "zero protection, zero consistency" in her book.

"Our lifestyle together was not traditional, putting it mildly," Drew told Today. "So walking away from my mom, shaking hands and saying, 'we need to emancipate,' those were just the facts. That's where our journey led us to and we were actually okay with that that's where we needed to go at that point."

After that, Drew says she had to learn everything on her own. "The laundry is what took me down," Drew shared. "Ikea furniture will also send one into a very dark spiral. I feel like I could run a company, but that Ikea furniture—still to this day, I'm like, 'How is that going to erect itself?'"

But it's that non-traditional upbringing, along with growing up in the spotlight, that brought Drew the kind of career—and attention—she wanted.

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"Having a very public experience when I was young taught me a lot about responsibility in a weird way," she said. " It definitely gave me a wake-up call...if everybody is going to know your business, maybe you'd like your business to be really classy. And that was a hard lesson, but it was a good lesson for me."

It also steered her down a more traditional road when it came time to raise her own daughters, three-year-old Olive and 18-month-old Frankie.

"If I hadn't had such an odd childhood, I'm not sure I would be this voracious to be traditional," she said. "I feel pretty complete now. I feel like certain things are settled and certain things feel like they're constantly needing cultivation to the garden, and I think things are good."

She also isn't afraid to talk about her earlier years with her kids, saying it's important that they get "the truth and nothing but the truth."

"When people are like, 'Aren't you worried your daughters are gonna end up like you?' I'm like, 'A, Thanks. [and] B, I in some ways hope they do, now in the later years. And in the younger years, they're not gonna have my life. You know, not going to Studio 54 at seven years old will probably make them a lot more normal than I was."

Oh, and since it seems like all these celebrity children are looking like their mom's twin these days, Entertainment Tonight had Drew watch a video of her first interview ever, and she couldn't help but notice the similarities to her daughter Olive. Check it out: